The complexity of city life often leaves us little time to stop, think, and connect with ourselves. Come to the Lab and let Swanhild Maaß (Chen School for Taijiquan) introduce you to the Chinese practice of meditation, movement patterns, and martial art.

Lab Team member Rachel Smith introduces the topic of the day: Reverse Garbage Infrastructure. Because waste never really “goes away,” today we will hear from people who have developed innovative ways to use the commodities that we typically dispose of.

The Vertech bridge is the first recycled thermoplastic road bridge to be built in Europe and the longest ever constructed. Learn more about this 100-percent-recyclable bridge and how this technology can be applied to other elements of urban infrastructure.

Garbage is a broad, all-encompassing term for almost everything for which we no longer have a use. Let’s rethink garbage and our relationship with it. Participate in a series of making activities and find out about global trends for the world’s waste problems.

The Plastiki expedition used an eighteen-meter-long catamaran, mainly constructed out of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and other waste products. Learn more about this fascinating project from Jo Royle, skipper of the Plastiki and ocean advocate.